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To be clear, I'm not accusing Anthropic of being evil black hats trying to break my computer, I'm accusing (or rather suspecting) them of pushing me towards some kind of product lo…

Their findings about auto mode catching more dangerous commands, and most permission requests being accepted without scrutiny is interesting. I can totally see how that happens. On…

Your "tilting at the windmill" phrasing is interesting. I don't get the sense from your tone otherwise that you disapprove of it or think it's pointless.

This explosion of optionality types is (the most important) topic of Rich Hickey's "Maybe Not" talk. I recommend it! The short version is: the shape of a type is inherent to the ty…

Perhaps the beginning of a new vowel harmony phenomenon in English

Wonderful to see Durak mentioned. I learned it in its Vietnamese form (Tấn) and introduced it to friends in Australia where it was a big hit. We eventually settled on calling it "D…

From my experience, the reason CORS is hard to understand is that it's somehow inverted from the default "shape" of security in web dev. We easily form the intuition of the client …

Went looking for that article out of curiosity. For what it's worth, I think the original commenter expressed a fair opinion politely, but the "author has issues" commenter was unn…

If you've got the ability to play the original, it still held up fantastically when I last played it properly (2-odd years ago). I tried emulating it a few years before that when I…

I wrote a response to this, but then I realised I was responding to the claim that modern media was more derivative, rather than what you actually said, which was that modern media…

> Deployment is pain specially on commodity VPS. Oh? Why is that?

> that foo which accepts a bar, frobnicates its internal state, and emits a mutated baz Tangential, but that reminds of the Haskell "hoogle" tool which allows searching for functio…

Boy that unc/uncer looks tantalisingly close to modern German uns/unser. Wiktionary seems to have it descending from a different PIE root, n̥s vs n̥h -- I'm not at all familiar wit…

Even if you put a gun to Bill Gates' head, signing over all his wealth to you would still require a lengthy process, not just handing over some keys.

A friend suggested a bottom-hinged door like that on a garbage chute, though well sealed, and as wide as the fridge, so the sides of the door don't get in the way of storing long o…

That's what makes me think they've simply mixed up horizontal and vertical, because you can't (conveniently) store things on top of a chest fridge, but you can store things on top …

They seem to have mixed up horizontal and vertical, and if they did, then my reading is that they're saying the cost of the extra floor space (and the loss of the "shelf" space on …

Gorgeous photos. One point of feedback: I went to your shop to view prints, and while it was nice to see them "in situ", I couldn't see the actual images because of how they small …

I really enjoyed your post and was surprised to see it not posted here. I guess now I can leave the comment I wasn't able to leave on lobste.rs :) The format made for good lunchtim…